Human Resource Management Variables and Academic Staff Job Effectiveness in the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

The study examined some human resource management variables and academic staff job effectiveness in the university of Calabar in Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the aim of this study, two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises all the academic staff in the University of Calabar. The total number of all the academic staff is three thousand eight hundred and sixty (3860). A stratified random sampling technique was used to select total numbers of one hundred (100) respondents from the University of Calabar. Relevant data for the study was collected with a researcher-developed questionnaire titled: "Human Resource Management Variable and Academic Staff Job Effectiveness Questionnaire (HRMVASJEQ). The instrument was subjected to face and content validity by experts in the administration of higher education and measurement and evaluation, Faculty of Education, University of Calabar. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis with the aid of the statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 25, was used for data analysis. The result revealed that the management of lecturers’ appraisal/promotion and management of lecturers’ in-service training significantly relate to their' job effectiveness in the university. It was recommended that the university management should ensure that lecturers are appraised and promoted appropriately to enhance their lecturer job performance. Also, that the university management should make provision for lecturer in-service training to enhance learning and improving lecturers’ job effectiveness.